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[2026] Poll 4 Voting (Multiweek)
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These are what was provided in the suggestion thread but are by no means exhaustive
1. 3 Weeks: A book related to yesterday, a book related to today, and a book related to tomorrow
* Book one: A book related to “yesterday” (A book with “yesterday” in the title, or a book set in the past.)
* Book two: A book related to “today” (A book with “today” in the title, or a book set in the present.)
* Book three: A book related to “tomorrow” (A book with “tomorrow” in the title, or a book set in the future
2. 2 Weeks: Two books where the last name of one author is the first name of the other
Example:
George Martin/Martin Turnbull
Will Thomas/Thomas Tyron
Jodi Taylor/Taylor Caldwell
Week 1: Author 1's last name is author 2's first name
Week 2: Author 2's first name is author 1's last name
3. 2 Weeks: One book related to hot and one book related to cold
This could include books set in HOT climates or weather conditions or COLD climates or weather conditions
Any book including a fire could qualify as HOT
Any book including “open door” sex scenes could qualify as HOT
Any book including a character considered to be COLD, as in an unfriendly personality, etc.
4. 2 Weeks: A book written by a male author that includes a love story, and a book written by a female author that DOES NOT include a love story
A book written by a male author that includes a love story.
Can be a “romance”, but can also be a sweet love story, or about the love of a child, familial love, deep loving friendship, etc. The love story does not need to be the focus of the plot.
A book written by a female author that DOES NOT include a love story.
Some Listopias for Love Stories written by Men (couldn’t find many JUST male authors, so will have to browse through most lists):
- ATY2021 Love Story: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... (forgot to check ahead to see if we’d had a similar prompt in the past)
- Classic Love Stories: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/ 104263.Best_Classic_Love_Stories (includes Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Dumas, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Nevil Shute, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, etc. - all books before 1960)
- Male Romance Authors: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (some of these are love stories, some are Romance, ALL are male authors)
Examples of Love Stories written by Men:
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Time of the Child by Niall Williams (love of family, child)
Bewilderment by Richard Powers (love of child)
My Friends by Fredrik Backman (deep loving friendship)
Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford
Some Listopias for Non-Love Stories written by Women (mostly couldn’t find many JUST female authors, so will have to browse through most lists. Tried to pick genres that are less likely to include a love story):
- Best Female Crime/Mystery/Thriller Writers: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
- Interesting and Readable Nonfiction: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
- Modern Science Non-Fiction: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
- Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
Examples of Non-Love Stories written by Women:
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by S.A. (Shannon) Chakraborty
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams (fiction)
Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams (nonfiction)
5. 3 Weeks: One book related to a sharp musical note, one book related to a flat musical note, and one book related to a natural musical note
A sharp book could have a knife on the cover or be about cheating (like a card sharp), have an author’s name or character name of Sharp e.g. Vanity Fair, feature pounds or hashtags (#)
A flat book could be set in flat countryside such as plains or fenland, set in an apartment/flat, be about depression or feeling flat, have “flat” in the title like Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
A natural book could be natural history, set in nature, someone with a talent (they’re a natural), a book featuring one of the natural sciences e.g biology, chemistry, physics
6. 2 Weeks: Two books where the first word of the second title is the same as the last word of the first title
Some common words that end and begin book titles are: Death, Murder, Book, Night, Year, Country, and City.
Examples include:
Naked in Death/ Death of the Author
Passions in Death/ Death Card
Immortal City/ The City of Dreaming Books
The Great When/ When Women Were Dragons
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London/ London Eye
Book of Night / Night Shift
light years / Year of the knife
When the moon hits your eye / Eyes & the impossible
How to Sell a Haunted House / House with good bones House of Cards
Lulu Dean's little library of banned books/ Book censor's library
Echo of old books/ Book that wouldn't burn
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7. 3 Weeks: One book related to planes, one book related to trains, and one book related to automobiles
Can either be about the object of transport, feature people traveling via those modes of transport, have the transport on the cover, or any other interpretation
Airplane books:
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Train books:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
Automobile books: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
8. 2 Weeks: Two books, where the second book's title provides a response to or continuation of the first book's title
Book 1: A book with a title suitable for another title to respond to.
Book 2: A book with a title that seems to respond to the title of Book 1.
Examples:
They Came to Baghdad + And Nobody Knew They Were There
Fourth Wing + The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
What I Ate in One Year + Tortilla Flat
What Rose Forgot + The Keys of the Kingdom
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman+ Working for Bigfoot
News of the World + Here We Go Again
When Sorrows Come + Run for the Hills
Letters from My Windmill + Return to Sender
The Buried Giant + In Too Deep
This is Where I Leave You + Tied Up In Tinsel
Between the World and Me + We Solve Murders
10. 2 Weeks: Two books where the second book's title contains a sequential number from the first book's title
Examples- One Hundred Years of Solitude, 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
One Italian Summer, A Tale of Two Cities
The Three of Us, The Four Winds
Station Eleven, Twelfth Night
Twelve Years a Slave, Thirteen Reasons Why
Slaughterhouse Five, Six of Crows
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Eight Perfect Murders
12. 2 Weeks: The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist
A front list book is defined as an author‘s most recently published book.
A backlist book is defined as all books the author published prior to their most recently published book.
As an example, Tom Lake is Ann Patchett’s most recently released boo. All of her books that were published prior to Tom Lake are her backlist books.
Another example would be The River Is Waiting by Wally Lamm. That is his most recently published book, there fire his front list books. All other books he published prior to The River Is Waiting are backlist books
13. 3 weeks: A book related to rock, a book related to paper, and a book related to scissors
Rock ideas - rock and roll, geology, mountains/rock climbing, gems
Paper - writers, books about books, libraries, lawyers and politicians (legal papers), journalists
Scissors - sewing, fashion, scissor kick is used in a few sports, there might be a few mysteries where people are stabbed with them.
14 2 Weeks: A book connected to RIGHT, and a book connected to WRONG
You could go for:
-books with right/wrong in the title (there is a listopia for this, but I can't get it to link correctly)
-books focused on topics that you personally think are right or wrong (nonfiction)
-relationships that seem right or wrong (romantic, family, friend etc...)
-times in history where things were right or wrong (historical fiction)
15. 3 Weeks: A book set in the N+E hemisphere, a book set in the S+E hemisphere, and a book set in the S+W hemisphere
Three books: one in each quadrant of the world excluding North America.
Read one book in the N+E hemispheres (Asia, Europe or Northern Africa)
Read one book in the S+ E Hemispheres (Oceania, and Southern Africa)
Read one book in the S+W hemispheres (South America)
I excluded North American because we will all read them anyway.
Members may choose to exclude their own countries.
Technically, parts of the UK and Africa are in the Western hemisphere, but you may consider them in the NE quadrant if you wish. Oceania includes Australia, New Zealand, and many islands
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/asia
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/europe
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/africa
SE quadrant
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/aust...
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/oceania
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/africa
SW quadrant
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/sout...
Note- the continent of Africa is crossed by both the Equator and the Prime Meridian. You can use a map to determine which quadrant your book is in. If you’re not sure where it goes, feel free to use it for one of the other quadrants. I agree with Pam’s idea to use Africa as a wild card for any of the quadrants if you wish.
Links for #15.NE quadrant
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/asia
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/europe
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/africa
SE quadrant
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/aust...
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/oceania
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/africa
SW quadrant
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/sout...
Note- the continent of Africa is crossed by both the Equator and the Prime Meridian. You can use a map to determine which quadrant your book is in. If you’re not sure where it goes, feel free to use it for one of the other quadrants. I agree with Pam’s idea to use Africa as a wild card for any of the quadrants if you wish.
Rock ideas - rock and roll, geology, mountains/rock climbing, gemsPaper - writers, books about books, libraries, lawyers and politicians (legal papers), journalists
Scissors - sewing, fashion, scissor kick is used in a few sports, there might be a few mysteries where people are stabbed with them.
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Ideas for Prompt 14- Right/WrongYou could go for:
books with right/wrong in the title (there is a listopia for this, but I can't get it to link correctly)
books focused on topics that you personally think are right or wrong (nonfiction)
relationships that seem right or wrong (romantic, family, friend etc...)
times in history where things were right or wrong (historical fiction)
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Ir's in the second one-- I broke them in half
For 4. 2 Weeks: A book written by a male author that includes a love story, and a book written by a female author that DOES NOT include a love story
Tracy, I really like the list of love stories written by men. I like all those authors. I have Time of the Child planned for the December holidays.
I highly recommend books by Ursula K. Le Guin for non- romance by women. Someone please let us know if there are love stories on her list that we should exclude.
Pamela wrote: "Jackie wrote: "Hey Pamela, on the first post, you're missing suggestion #10: 2 Weeks: Two books where the second book's title contains a sequential number from the first book's title"Ir's in the ..."
No, in Message 1 -- it isn't on the list.
Katherine wrote: "Ideas for Prompt 14- Right/WrongYou could go for:
books with right/wrong in the title (there is a listopia for this, but I can't get it to link correctly)..."
Here you go, Katherine: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
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Ah! Fixed!
Katherine wrote: "Ideas for Prompt 14- Right/Wrong… books focused on topics that you perso..."
I thought of a few NF books about evil corporations and leaders, and perhaps related books about brave people with the courage to do the right thing. I used to have books about highly moral corporations and leaders , I’ll have to think about it.
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It (right and wrong)
Right
Humankind: A Hopeful History
I took a nap and am now overwhelmed by the list!First impressions without doing much research:
1. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow - easily doable and could apply to many genres
2. Last name/first name author prompt - Neutral
3. Hot/cold - Neutral
4. Male/female love story/no love story - Interesting idea. I need to poke around and see what I have.
5. Music prompt - Another interesting one.
6. First word/last word - doable. I did a bit of looking around based on the Wild Discussion and found some idea.
7. Planes/trains/automobiles - Neutral. I'm pretty sure I've done this one before.
8. Call/response - I like this one
9. Lion/witch/wardrobe - I like this one a lot.
10. Sequential numbers - Initially, I was not thrilled with this one, but I wanted to start the Stephanie Plum books, so this prompt is tailor-made for them.
11. Earth/Water - Neutral
12. Front list/backlist - Interesting idea that might push me to read one of the newer releases on my list
13. Rock/paper/scissors - neutral
14. Right/wrong - neutral
15. Quadrant without North America (?) - neutral; I've done various permutations of this many times.
Only a couple of definite upvotes so far. I'll be following any pre-voting discussions to decide on the rest.
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First impressions1. 3 Weeks: A book related to yesterday, a book related to today, and a book related to tomorrow - maybe, past and present are easy for me, future is harder.
2. 2 Weeks: Two books where the last name of one author is the first name of the other- maybe
3. 2 Weeks: One book related to hot and one book related to cold - yes, I have books that will fit.
4. 2 Weeks: A book written by a male author that includes a love story, and a book written by a female author that DOES NOT include a love story - yes
5. 3 Weeks: One book related to a sharp musical note, one book related to a flat musical note, and one book related to a natural musical note - related to music would be easier.
6. 2 Weeks: Two books where the first word of the second title is the same as the last word of the first title - yes, sounds fun.
7. 3 Weeks: One book related to planes, one book related to trains, and one book related to automobiles - we already have one travel book, so this might be hard. Trains is my least favorite.
8. 2 Weeks: Two books, where the second book's title provides a response to or continuation of the first book's title - the examples don’t make sense to me, and I doubt I could do better.
9. 3 Weeks: One book related to the lion, one book related to the witch, and one book related to the wardrobe - witches are easy, no idea for wardrobe.
10, 2 Weeks: Two books where the second book's title contains a sequential number from the first book's title - I’ll have to search my tbr
11. 2 Weeks: A book related to water, and a book related to earth - probably yes. water is easy, I’ll need examples for earth
12. 2 Weeks: The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist -maybe. I would want to pick an author I like, whose newest book I haven’t read.
13. 3 weeks: A book related to rock, a book related to paper, and a book related to scissors - I voted for this last year as 1 prompt. 3 is too many.
14 2 Weeks: A book connected to RIGHT, and a book connected to WRONG - this will take thought, and I like that.
15. Three books: one in each quadrant of the world excluding North America - yes, I have books that will fit
I have 4 easy upvotes, and good choices. I might not have any downvotes.
Pamela wrote: "I already voted, since I had to test the voting thing, but I'll say the one prompt that I poo-poo'ed when it was nominated but have really grown to like is the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Mo..."The witch part of the trio is why I’ll upvote it. I originally didn’t really care much for it.
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I think it's one of those prompts which gets better the more you look. I love those prompts
I love the lion, witch, wardrobe prompt. I initially couldn't think of anything for lion but then remembered that MGM had the lion logo so you could read a book that was made into an MGM film. I didn't look too far into the back catalogue but recent releases include Little Women, Women Talking, American Fiction and Nickel Boys. Project Hail Mary is coming out next year so it might finally push me to get to that.
I’m a bit worried that the musical note category says “related to a x musical note” rather than “a x book” or “a book related to x”. I think that a sharp book is quite different to a book related to a sharp musical note. A book with a knife on the cover has no relation in my mind to a sharp musical note, but it could be a sharp book.
The current wording feels more restrictive because it contains the inspiration words about musical notes. Am I making sense?
1. 3 Weeks: A book related to yesterday, a book related to today, and a book related to tomorrow - no, because the 'future' is probably going to require a sci-fi book, and I am just really not into those.2. 2 Weeks: Two books where the last name of one author is the first name of the other - this is a maybe. I like the creativity of it.
3. 2 Weeks: One book related to hot and one book related to cold-neutral.
4. 2 Weeks: A book written by a male author that includes a love story, and a book written by a female author that DOES NOT include a love story - This feels limiting to me, so I don't think I will vote 'up' for this one.
5. 3 Weeks: One book related to a sharp musical note, one book related to a flat musical note, and one book related to a natural musical note - Not sure how I feel about this one, honestly. It's creative but I don't know.
6. 2 Weeks: Two books where the first word of the second title is the same as the last word of the first title - like it. It feels challenging but doable based on my TBR.
7. 3 Weeks: One book related to planes, one book related to trains, and one book related to automobiles - Haven't we done some version of this before?
8. 2 Weeks: Two books, where the second book's title provides a response to or continuation of the first book's title - A bit confusing. Not sure how I feel about it.
9. 3 Weeks: One book related to the lion, one book related to the witch, and one book related to the wardrobe - I like the witch and the wardrobe part, but I don't think I would have anything on my TBR for lions??
10, 2 Weeks: Two books where the second book's title contains a sequential number from the first book's title - Fun! I like it a lot. It's probably my favorite prompt.
11. 2 Weeks: A book related to water, and a book related to earth-neutral. Feels like one we've done a number of times.
12. 2 Weeks: The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist - like it.
13. 3 weeks: A book related to rock, a book related to paper, and a book related to scissors - interesting.
14 2 Weeks: A book connected to RIGHT, and a book connected to WRONG - neutral
15. Three books: one in each quadrant of the world excluding North America - I have books that will fit but we've done lots of versions of this so I'm not sure I'd vote for it.
I have at least 4 up votes this time.
Kat wrote: "I love the lion, witch, wardrobe prompt. I initially couldn't think of anything for lion but then remembered that MGM had the lion logo so you could read a book that was made into an MGM film. I di..."Hmm, okay that's an interesting way to interpret it. I like that idea.
12 seems designed for my current T. Kingfisher obsession. I'm reading her new books as they come out but also working through her backlist.Since the wardrobe is the portal to Narnia, I think you could make a portal fantasy fit, if you didn't want a fashion prompt. I just finished a lion book too, Wearing the Lion. Maybe it's a sign.
Re what to read related to lions, any book by an author or with title character called Leo/Leonie/Lionel would work. So would a book related to pride or Pride. Then there are historical figures like Richard the Lionheart. Three lions on the English football shirt plus the Lionesses as Pamela has suggested.
Verity wrote: "I’m a bit worried that the musical note category says “related to a x musical note” rather than “a x book” or “a book related to x”. I think that a sharp book is quite different to a book related..."
Agreed! Especially now that we know a significant number of people vote based solely on the prompt suggestion, without reading any of the discussion or the prompt description.
If you want to change the wording (maybe something like "inspired by"?) you might still be able to if you can catch the mods early enough today.
Pamela wrote: "... And Witches are my Dad Genre..."what is "Dad Genre"?
Verity wrote: "I’m a bit worried that the musical note category says “related to a x musical note” rather than “a x book” or “a book related to x”. I think that a sharp book is quite different to a book related..."
I'm sorry if I messed up the wording. After posting the original suggestion, there was another post asking for the suggestions to follow a particular format. Maybe a mod can change it to how you want it to read before the vote link is up?
This is my least favorite poll ... not because of the prompts but because I intensely dislike multi-week prompts. In light of that, I wonder whether in future years we could include a prompt in the voting like:Read any two books you are anxious to read. (or 3 or 4)
Edie, It is my least favorite as well. I think the prompt ideas are pretty good but will down vote more than up vote in hopes that we get the least number of them in. I am grateful we don't have any 4 or more week prompts. I like your idea, I often have a few books that I am intimidated to read but think I might like. Part of me wonders if as is it is interesting enough but I also like its simplicity.
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OMG-- I love love that translation! Esp as I want to read Project Hail Mary before it comes out
Samantha wrote: "Edie, It is my least favorite as well. I think the prompt ideas are pretty good but will down vote more than up vote in hopes that we get the least number of them in. I am grateful we don't have an..."I am also grateful there are no 4 week prompts. I wish we could limit it to 4 or 5 weeks of multi-week prompts (if we have to have them at all.) I also will be downvoting more than up.
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what is "Dad Genre"?"
My boss introduced me to this. The cliche was dads of a certain generation all read books on World War II. The new generation of dad's read more diversely, but at the end of the day, dads, as well of the rest of us, have a genre we tend to go to quite often and our people think they're safe buying you a book in that genre. For me, it's witchy romance books.
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I normally hate them too, but 2025's are good. I'm having problems with the 2 books from different genres prompt cause I have too many ideas!
Some of these I like, some I hate. But I've also learned the prompts I love or hate during voting often switch to the other side when reading.
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We limit it to 6 weeks-- but if the leaders are 3 and 2 weeks, then it'll be 5 weeks.
My book club likes books about travel and other countries. My favorites are planes trains automobiles, and NSEW hemispheres. Water and earth are popular titles on my list. I am anti romance at the moment but other love stories are fine.
Pamela wrote: "Edie wrote: "This is my least favorite poll ... not because of the prompts but because I intensely dislike multi-week prompts. In light of that, I wonder whether in future years we could include a ..."I usually have really strong opinions about prompts every year. Some I really don’t like, but then, I usually end of finding something that works, and my original opinion changes.
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I think that a sharp book is quite different to..."
Sorry, the language was changed for clarity. I've asked the more experienced mods if it can be changed once voting has begun.
I will say, so far you all are continuing your pattern of Strong and Unified Opinions in this poll.
Pamela wrote: "Edie wrote: "This is my least favorite poll ... not because of the prompts but because I intensely dislike multi-week prompts. In light of that, I wonder whether in future years we could include a ..."I feel like after all these years I should know this but I panic every year - thank you for the clarification.
I wanted to a congrats and good job taking the reins on this round of prompts! Not an easy one to start off on.
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LOL- it was a bear. But I had Emily as my expert back-up who caught lots of things I missed. I'm so impressed she does it alone- I know she knows what she's doing and has systems, but still!
I think in general it was quieter than normal- less nominations
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Not a big fan of multiweek prompts, in general. There were a couple I did have strong feelings for, so I went 2 up and 6 down.
I managed to vote in this poll, so far it is the second poll I am voting in. In the midst on my vacation period and being on line is not my top priority. Hopefully I will pick up and vote more as it comes forward and my vacation ends in a couple of weeks. At least I am spending a lot of time reading :-)
I rather have two week selections than three since there is generally one of the triad which is going to cause me a real problem. Most of the prompts were not that exciting for me with the exception of #1 since the choices are wide open between historical fiction, science fiction and contemporary fiction. I also thought choosing a second book's title, which is connected to the first might be fun. Overall, I voted two up but six down.
Oh, I love the multiweek prompts myself. I'd rather see that we have one threeweek prompt and one fourweek prompt. There are so many fun possibilities connected to multiweek prompts!
4 up 4 down - i never know how the voting for multiweek is going to go.. 8 is probably my favorite on the list. I think we had a similar one that didn't make it through last year, so maybe this will be the year!
For the first prompt, you could do a book released in the same year, month or day for "today" and read an ARC for "tomorrow". I'd like the train/plane/automobiles prompt more if it weren't up for multiweek. So far, I have 6 upvotes.
This year we have a lot of prompts that seem like multi-weeks but aren't: nuns/witches/goddesses, underground/undersea/underworld, animal/vegetable/mineral, art/music/dancing/acting, and of course brain/athlete/basket case/princess/criminal! I guess the difference is that these are meant to be 'choices between' rather than 'read one of each', but I try to read one of each anyway. I do like multi week prompts where the books are linked, like the call-and-response one in this poll, and two books with a connection from different genres this year.
I just did a witch prompt somewhere and dislike them, so that was a no for me. This time I wanted do downvote more than I could ONLY because multiweek ones are trickier, but then I have a hard time with multi-weeks AND I really wanted to upvote at least 3 of them.
I'm on vacation right now without a computer so its harder for me to do my usual first impressions list with just a phone (but at least I can still vote!)I'm also not a fan of multiweek prompts in general. I often find myself putting them off and not really wanting to tackle them because of the "commitment" to read multiple books in a row without the option to just mood read what I feel like or tackle other prompts in between. I know I can space the books out if I want, but to me that defeats the purpose of it being "multiweek"
Of this batch, the only one I'm really strongly attached to is Lion,Witch and Wardrobe. I like the love story by a male author/non-love story by a female author idea too, although I'm not sure I'd have too much trouble finding something that fits. I have several romance books by male authors.
Aside from that, I'm seeing a lot of prompts I'm likely to downvote because we've had them (or very similar) before, and I'd prefer something more unique.
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Poll Prompts:
1. 3 Weeks: A book related to yesterday, a book related to today, and a book related to tomorrow
2. 2 Weeks: Two books where the last name of one author is the first name of the other
3. 2 Weeks: One book related to hot and one book related to cold
4. 2 Weeks: A book written by a male author that includes a love story, and a book written by a female author that DOES NOT include a love story
5. 3 Weeks: One book related to a sharp musical note, one book related to a flat musical note, and one book related to a natural musical note
6. 2 Weeks: Two books where the first word of the second title is the same as the last word of the first title
7. 3 Weeks: One book related to planes, one book related to trains, and one book related to automobiles
8. 2 Weeks: Two books, where the second book's title provides a response to or continuation of the first book's title
9. 3 Weeks: One book related to the lion, one book related to the witch, and one book related to the wardrobe
10, 2 Weeks: Two books where the second book's title contains a sequential number from the first book's title
11. 2 Weeks: A book related to water, and a book related to earth
12. 2 Weeks: The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist
13. 3 weeks: A book related to rock, a book related to paper, and a book related to scissors
14 2 Weeks: A book connected to RIGHT, and a book connected to WRONG
15. Three books: one in each quadrant of the world excluding North America
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